well you should. only. chemical weapons have reportedly been used in a rocket attack that killed twenty six people in northern syria with both of the opposition and the government blaming each other for the assault. making save lives or save battens subaru the stand to see up to ten percent of their life savings wiped away over in you bail out conditions in theory among islanders and beyond. in a series of bomb attacks in through baghdad killing dozens and injuring hundreds as iraq was struggles to back to get back on its feet on the tenth anniversary of the u.s. led invasion. and human rights groups are turning a blind eye to the growing hunger strike among guantanamo bay prisoners and make claims officials are doing everything they can to hush the protest.

at seven pm here in the russian capital you live with us on our t. with me to bomb once a very good to have your company with us to see things now a rocket attack on a town outside aleppo in syria's north has left dozens dead including sixteen government of soldiers details on what actually happened on the ground us then but there are reports comical weapons could have been used as the syrian government and the opposition are accusing each other which is that maria for national was in the country recently and is here with me now in the studio marina the use of chemical weapons is still not confirmed as yet what do we know so far. conflicting reports

as is always often the case with the uprising in syria over the last two years h. side is you just is accusing the other one and these accusations sound quite similar we are hearing from syria's national news agency sign about the rebels have fired containing chemical. products in the country's northern province not far from the biggest city of syria a lap or scene of devastating violence over the last year and it has killed at least fifteen people mainly civilians reports say and this is almost a direct direct ico what we're hearing from syrian observatory for human rights u.k. based opposition group saying that the army has attacked in the country's north using chemical products chemical. agents well it's very hard at this point to verify exactly what has happened to find out the truth and now i know you spent some time on the ground in syria reporting from syria and i just want to know as

a journalist being on the ground what's it like for you i mean what kind of information are you getting when you hear you know shooting the whatever it is the round you how are you getting the right information while you're on the ground that there happen absolutely. it's very hard almost impossible to talk about right or wrong things right or wrong information really this conflict since the beginning has been very hard to be independently verified one and even for us journalists working on the ground it's never been easy to find out exactly what happened exactly what is happening even in front of your eyes if you see an explosion you can't you can't say who's behind this explosion you're only can say that people are dying that some buildings have been damaged and all you can say for sure i remember when i was there in august two thousand and eleven the uprising has just started just several my. past and. repeat on you tube showing dead bodies

being thrown from the bridge in the central city of hama and they were to contradict the description for the one saying that these are the bodies of the army soldiers and another one sorry that these are the rabble the opposition fighters well when we came. to the scene when we arrived to the city of hama i mean the same story we couldn't get any information that we would have and it's almost always been like this with this conflict in syria it's very hard to very must be very difficult as journalists working there with such information that can be very fired yeah so you have to the same passion for the same credibility the same time now despite the diplomatic as a parent meetings of minds between john kerry and sergey lavrov the idea seems to be intensifying saluted and this is the saddest thing here we've actually seen very

often intensification of the violence at least on the levels of claims in syria had a big international meetings like for example if you remember houla massacre that happened right on the eve of the u.n. general assembly last may well it's always like this and. you're absolutely right the diplomatic or for a certain force where you know we've been hearing. both sides for the first five are getting as close. as never before to political dialogue so they've agreed to talk to each other and i'm expected to go to carter to more to cover the arab league sash and expectations were very high ahead of this meeting as well that it could help stop the bloodshed but of course with this recent report and decision violence i mean wonders and it doesn't help all these years when there's so much to cover so many different angles and you out there on the ground giving us what you can as a journalist maria financial. the in syria with me just giving us an outline of

what's happening in syria now and neil clark is a journalist is written extensively about syria and he joins me live from oxford. you know we've just been hearing from our correspondent about the difficulties of getting information confirmed on the ground. obama has said government use of chemical weapons would be a red line what is a comical weapon were carried out by the rebels do you do you think this is a possibility do you think this that they did. well in chemical weapons have been use it's very unlikely they would be the syrian government as usual because the syrian government knows that the u.s. france britain is waiting to strike those are the very last may be wanted to provoke that sort of intervention so it would be lunacy and madness for president assad's forces to use chemical weapons and so if you know we have a can of worms has been used it has to be by the rebels and if that's the case then obviously that will highlight the hypocrisy of the u.s.

and the west because they said the red line the chemical weapons are only seems to apply present assad's forces use of the syrian army and so we're going to be consistent on these chemical weapons to use me is wrong and if the rebels are using them they should be conducted to war crimes now the opposition the prime minister i guess a naturalized u.s. citizen what do you think drove this election his election but it reminds me of the election about ecommerce of mahmoud jibril in libya if you think back two years to the libyan air. and to see a very similar scenario because. he had spent many decades in the us he'd studied in the us and it was a very revealing wiki leaks cable from the us ambassador to libya which said that you know he was our kind of man he was the sort of person who could follow the us line so to speak and i think the same scenario with this man today is neat-o. because he spent decades living in texas and he's from the us if he's got a passport and of course the the americans want to make sure that when president

assad falls they got their man in damascus and they've cherry picked and he's been voted by thirty five people and it's quite ludicrous to argue that this guy has the right to rule syria where is present assad whether we support him or not does have sizable support in the country which is why still in power and so i think the answer your question the u.s. wants this man as an ideal sort of leader opposed to sack to take power and obviously to do the things expected of him which would be to open up this unit commonly to u.s. multinationals productize economy and of course to a great read has a lot to break there are no we say we keep saying rebels but really is there a mix of moderates to al-qaeda link exam is again can you hear them together you know is there is a simple answer to that because what we as we say what we call the rebels are very wide ranging group of people from radical islamists al-qaeda groups to moderate islamists to people who are very very anti american to be very pro-american and he's got an impossible task and the and the biggest bomb he's got is of course that

the rebels don't have majority support in syria they don't this is that the this is why this conflict is still going on because it present assad was an unpopular as the u.s. would like us to believe in britain like instability then present as i would have gone by now the fact is is that he does have sizable support in the country people in syria look at the rebels and say no sags we don't want these people they're very good by the beacon of what we're going to get we going to get radical islam we're going to get who knows what we're going to get it may take power so they're running behind behind the government so i think he's got an impossible task. neil clark always interesting to hear your thoughts on this subject i thank you very much for joining us here. taking the bailout model to extrusions of the e.u. has given sign prison ultimatum either for savers to save the banks or go bankrupt many cypriots now strangely see a three ten percent of the life savings erase all to secure indebted banks for the

bailout from brussels that's across are now two artes a set of four more on what's happening on the mediterranean island it's not all sunshine over there is it what's the latest. call certainly the weather may be good but that's not the case for what is happening right here in front of the parliament here and on to my left you might be hearing some chanting there some protesters are already starting to gather against that decision by brussels on saturday morning ten billion a year old bailout on the condition that a one time bank deposit tax be imposed at this is really where the problem started the anger from the people coming where. attacks will be imposed on the money they hold in banks all the initial proposal was that everybody with any amount of money from one hundred thousand below will have six point seven five percent tax and those above one hundred thousand will get up to nine point nine percent now their leaders who are trying to scramble to find an acceptable. package here because it's

seems that the expectation is that it will get through through parliament now the vote has been postponed we hear that it might be happening tomorrow now if we talk about the reaction from the ground they feel that the a small savers of modest savers who just simply been putting their money in the back are getting affected by this even those who are trying to keep their emotions in check and try to be rational about this they feel that cyprus and the people have really been and now are being used as guinea pigs as sort of an experiment on economic experiment because this is the first time that the e.u. is going to be dipping into the savings of people and so now leaders are really scrambling to find an acceptable solution not just a problem but to the people who are protesting on the streets clearly the anger seems to be boiling over a new crack if you will in this a euro zone story and what does all this leave i mean it doesn't seem like it has that many options does it. well there really is a problem here because there has been no plan b.

when this deposit tax was imposed and now again i can hear the people chanting here they're really saying that it's putting the country putting the country into a corner so now the foreign. investment here in cyprus making a big bulk of it you have russian and british investments here it could be in trouble with fear and capital flight people have been going out into the streets trying to empty a.t.m. machines trying to get their savings i've been to some of the machines the locals can get some money out of it as a vote on the banks will remain closed it will be a problem trying to get cash and liquidity flowing in the economy so where does that leave cyprus really if you put it in one word it's kind of a mess a right now there is no solution that they can see that's viable for all parties involved whether economically or socially or even politically. thank you very much today for your insight i know you're safe and will be with you obviously with an update in the next couple hours by the cyber has

a parliament has now delayed a vote on no the bank. takes until wednesday amid reports that the measure would fail but belgian m.e.p. . says of the may be no alternative to pos in the tax. because the crisis in greece is mainly to blame for what's happening in cyprus now because the good sense cypriot banks have been exposed to to greece. to the european union is already trying to say agrees the ready has had three bailout operations and is still in the middle of it so there's not much greece can do anymore and the only thing we can do is to try to save cyprus which is already the fifth bailout operation and of course there's also a limit to the patients are the taxpayers in germany the netherlands and finland because finally these are the people who have to guarantee their loans to cyprus and that beijing is now is limited so i think it was. it was good to have

a contribution of the savers in cyprus itself of course in other countries we have a different sort of problems but remember in spain savers already have contributed those people had an interest in the spanish bank bankia lost money some people in other banks had lost money and generally european savers are losing money because we have a policy of cheap money low interest rates and that means that saving money if you put money in the bank it cost you money. i'll be back with more news in just a few minutes to stay with us here in our city. wealthy british style. time to.

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you're watching r t a live from moscow it's good to have your company with us. now at least fifty six people have been killed and over two hundred wounded in a series of bombings across the back that the attacks run mostly shiite neighborhoods of the city officials say they have been at least ten separate incidents including suicide car and drove side explosions in busy areas all within the one one of the deadliest attacks or struck at near the heavily fortified green zone the seat of a million government buildings and embassies no one has officially claimed responsibility but sunni militants have been stepping up their attacks in the country aiming to destabilize the government these souls are come as iraq months ten years this is a coalition led by the u.s. and britain invaded the country with their freedom and democracy mission artie's a new seeker for knowledge has more. at this hour american and coalition forces are

in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger. this was the freedom they brought shock and awe bombs over baghdad what the pentagon billed as a quick war to liberate iraq turned into a prolonged nightmare. ten years of bloodshed war occupation and deadly sectarian strife drained by afghanistan exhausted by iraq for washington the battle is over for the kid a girl gets processed thousands of gods and over a trillion dollars. nation we need to build is our way but what if the nation they left behind. were not happy biggest regret the iraqi people are destroyed the infrastructure is devastated the country is ruined. these graves are a visual reminder of

a decade of human strife almost everyone in this country has lost somebody whom they love no one knows exactly. how many iraqis have been killed since the invasion and the estimates range from more than one hundred fifty thousand to over one million for years the us claimed not to keep body counts but how do you mohamed has kept count his four sons and only grandchild were killed in a suicide blast. how am i doing i raise my sons and some of them good models and send them to universities i watch them and you asked me if it's better or worse now compared to ten years ago i still have my sons ten years ago so i think the answer is obvious. others have seen their dreams of a brighter future shattered by years of violence. i was top of my class when circumstances became very bad after the occupation of hell that something was broken inside of me my ambition and everything i used to dream of becoming

a doctor or an engineer but conditions prevented me from continuing my studies but an education is no guarantee of work less than forty percent of iraqi adults have a job and a quarter of families live below the world bank's poverty line statistics that haven't improved much since the days of crushing u.n. sanctions in the one nine hundred ninety s. elections may have brought democracy to iraq but critics say the government is rife with corruption and infighting. despite the ferias that's occurred in the time of the former regime it is not comparable to the number of freely is by the politicians and the current government. more troubling perhaps are the lingering divisions. this occupation separated us into tribes interplays the political structure of the tribal one which aggravated the political conflict i see no good in this kind of regime. today iraq is facing a new political crisis there's tension on the ground between the sunni provinces

and the shia led government as well as between baghdad and the kurdish north i think if these issues are not resolved it can lead to more significant problems including conflict which can lead to i think the breakup of iraq and destabilization the region and an upsurge in violence is sparking fears of a return to sectarian strife new figures show that death rates have actually risen since the last american soldier left iraqi soil. how long will iraq remain like this every day there are explosions every day there's killing every day there's terrorist. explosion after explosion iraqis have asked themselves that same question for most of the last ten years who seek our final r.t. iraq. but a decade of occupation has taken its toll on the health of the rockies for some insight on that let's turn to mother tank policy coordinator add a third world health aide to the midst of

a tangle on health care is she is what would you say ails iraqis the most ten years after the invasion. what i think i mean the killing obviously i mean there's nothing worse for your health and being killed so what we've seen today the insecurity is a heavy price iraq you still have to pay they've already paid a heavy price sanctions were sponsible for about one million. iraqis afterwards the war between two thousand and three two thousand and nine it was about another million killed so i'd say that's probably the most significant thing then afterwards there's also other issues like poverty poverty obviously leading to malnutrition low access of water i mean there's about say about twenty five percent of iraqis today that do not get beyond two point two dollars a day so that's obviously a massive health concern for the iraqi population today now we've heard a lot about soldiers returning from iraq having mental health issues shellshocked

but what about the rockies themselves is their well being getting enough attention . well mental health issues with soldiers i mean when i hear about them one of the questions always also is like well if you've been killing people if you've been in that situation i mean what would it feel like for the people being on the other side of the gun or would it be for the people not torturing but the people being tortured obviously mental health today in iraq is that is a massive issue i mean it's not just a side issue it's not just collateral damage i mean it's been at the center of the war from the very beginning remember the war started with a shock and awe campaign to terrorize the population population to intimidate the population so that they would not resist. that obviously has taken its toll on the population there's been a survey from the iraq yes social psychologists with about a thousand children and they found that ninety two of the ninety two percent of those children actually had learning impediments due to the fear and insecurity

will not be kidnapped or will i be shot will my father survive those things obviously take a massive toll on the iraqi population and they're not as i was saying they're not just a coincidence they're the essence of war what about the west in a davenant been used to restore the health system an infrastructure they. it's some interesting question i mean there's been a huge amount of western aid going into iraq. most of it has been used by military contractors they have very often not kept to their commitments the major success of reconstruction has been the u.s. embassy in baghdad because one of the most impressive and most costly projects in iraq right now for the rest of the occupation had a philosophy of small states shrinking the iraqi state which meant that the iraqi government should be less involved in health care and that the private sector should do more which means that today private hospitals which can ask you for three

hundred dollars for a delivery six hundred dollars versus area well those health care centers private health care is gaining gaining some support some some popularity but honestly for the twenty five percent of the iraqis living under poverty that's not doing it for tango from the third world health aid to thank you very much for your time and your insight into what's happening in iraq. the hunger strike at guantanamo bay continues to gain momentum as human rights groups criticize for ignoring the plight of the presidents of forty two days on as new detainees joined the protests u.s. officials maintain that inmates have never been mistreated an attorney who has represented several gun tama bay prisoners says many of them remain behind bars even though they were cleared long ago. there are hundred sixty six people at guantanamo of those there are probably at most twenty guys who are bad guys who

were taken in later guys like khalid shaikh muhammad the other people are and most nothing more than half of them eighty six of them may have been cleared at least for three years and some during the bush administration cleared as innocent people and they're still there and they're frustrated i mean i don't care if you're held in the dorchester hotel in london or the best hotel the ritz carlton in moscow and you're confined to that room for eleven years and you can't see your family you can't go out and talk to people you can't read freely you can't get about i don't care that so how is the condition even if you're fed the best food every day and believe me they're not i mean they are imprisoned improperly without a chance to get out that's the worst condition they've been tracking the guantanamo hunger strike if you want the big log on. now coming up it's breaking the yeah.

there was a time in america when buses were officially segregated and today if they tried to resegregate the wall next that there would be outrage throughout the usa every t.v. channel and newspaper so segregation in america was wrong but no america funding segregation no for via foreign aid seems to be ok and jim dandy. arab language leaflets have been spread around west bank in palestinian areas asking residents to start using special bus lines plans to put palestinians on separate bus lines were first announced in november of two thousand and twelve after some complaints by jewish settlers of trouble on the buses between passengers of different ethnicities

in regards to the special bus lines israeli human rights group but selim said the attempt at segregation is appalling and the current arguments about security needs an overcrowding must not be allowed to camouflage blatant racism you know when south africa had apartheid they were slammed with sanctions including from the us but if you're israel go ahead and segregate all the buses you like and you'll still be the u.s. is top recipient of foreign aid at three point one billion dollars a year if there's one thing i don't like it's hypocrisy like this but that's just my opinion. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous and lucky i got so. i miss family and think that i'm. really not so. very slow

in the. worst chipper to live. by that sort of a. radio guy minutes. away. to good use never seen anything like this until. you get. greetings everyone welcome to breaking the set my name is many rock below i'm filling in for abby martin while she's out of the studio this morning i was. shocked and honestly disgusted to read about a couple of people who actually benefited financially from the sandy hook shooting in the days following the massacre that left twenty eight dead and two injured at a small connecticut elementary school two new york hedge funds were quick to seize on the opportunity to profit from the tragedy the group used the predictable

reaction from the public which equates a bloody shooting to fear that guns are going to get taken away which in turn leads to a spike in gun sales so just this morning sparrow media named and shamed the hedge fund managers responsible for the purchases as jeffrey altman and robert bishop each of them thought of millions of shares in gun stocks and to supporting that the push from congress for new gun regulations would create a fabricated demand for firearms turning one of the most tragic mass shootings in american history into mere profits but should we really be surprised that wall street vultures would capitalize on tragedy and might be shameless but that's just business so let's break this up. when was the last time you looked at a label on a package of canned corn or soybeans or or bread for that matter that it's.